quotations about cruelty
Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.
BRENE BROWN
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The Gifts of Imperfection
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
The Angel of mercy stoppeth not to comfort, but passeth by on the other side, and hath no tear to shed when the cruel man is damned.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
"Of Cruelty to Animals,", Poems of King Alfred
You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.
MARIE LU
The Midnight Star
Each single day has just enough cruelty within
To make them perfect and right
Each single day has just enough dark, deep within
To make it perfect and light
JACK BRUCE
"Milonga Too", More Jack Than God
Some cruel people do not feel pleasure in making others suffer. Indeed, they seem not to feel anything. Their cruelty is manifested by a lack of what is judged appropriate feeling, as pity or mercy, for the plight of the individual whose suffering they cause ... as if they were unaware of it or failed to appreciate it as suffering, in the way that, for example, lions appear to be unaware of, and thus are not sensitive to, the pain they cause their prey.
TOM REGAN
The Case for Animal Rights
When the cruel fall into the hands of the cruel, we read their fate with horror, not with pity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Sceptical Essays
Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.
LODOVICO ARIOSTO
Orlando Furioso
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin.
G.K. CHESTERTON
All Things Considered
Each snivelling hero seas of blood can spill,
When wrongs provoke and honour bids him kill;
Give me your through-paced rogue, who scorns to be
Prompted by poor revenge, or injury,
But does it of true inbred cruelty.
JOHN OLDHAM
On the Jesuits
Oh, 'tis cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches.
THOMAS FULLER
Holy and Profane States: Of Jesting
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish